Eclipse wrong Java properties UTF-8 encoding

Question

I have a JavaEE project, in which I use message properties files. The encoding of those file is set to UTF-8. In the file I use the german umlauts like ä,

Answer 1

Add the following arguments to your eclipse.ini file.

-Dclient.encoding.override=UTF-8
-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

By default Eclipse uses the encoding format picked up by the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Also, you can set the file encoding to utf-8.